The Penn's Grove record., 1887-02-12
for Infants and Children.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Robert Burns, is dead at the age OF "a
years.
One thousand men from Pike and
Calhoun counties, H., took part IN 3
recent fox chase.
-Jenner made the lrst experiment
Of inoculating a child from a cow.poI
p~ustule in 1895.
1t cost Lansing, Mich, $50 to con
Wet a ~17-year-old girl Of the theft OF a
dog valued at % cents.
Montana turnips" is the name by
which 5000 or 500 Jumps of bullion are
known in that Territory.
Bogus ten-eent pieces have made
their appearance at Long Branch, Red
Bank and Asbury Park, N. j.
Key West, Fla, reports that there
are no tramps, no beggars and no OBJ
iects. of charity in that city.
The first time the halls Of Congress
at washington, were illuminated with
gas was during the Polk Admlnistra-
ton.
Liquor men in various New Jersey
cities are said to have combined to de-
feat any legislative action against their
interests.
After an absence of two years and
nine days, a pet squirrel has returned
voluntarily to its old quarters in Mattl-
son, Mich.
The number of beggars in the
streets Of San Francisco has grown 50
large as to attract the attention of the
local press.
Congressman Mitchell, Of Connec-
ticut, had his left arm broken the other
day by being thrown out of a sleigh in
New York.
The Chatham, On. b World says
that at a recent revival at Mill Branch,
every man and woman in the place
except one-was converted.
Coal or excellent quality has been
struck lea st. Louis by well sinkers at
a depth OF frty-three feet. The extent
OF the vein is as yet unknown.
The failure to agree upon who
should play ''Macbeth" was the cause
of the disarmament of a dramatic society
at Palouse City, w. T., recently.
-Pittsburg health officers estimate
the death rate in that city for 1886 to be
81 per thousand. This estimate sup
poses the population to amount to 203,
600.
"A single sheet of paper, seyenty-two
inches wide and seven and three-quar-
tiers miles long, has been made without
a break in a paper mill at Watertown,
N. Y.
The gross mineral output Of Mon
tana last year is stated at S24, 000, 900,
of which there was So, 800, 900 in gold,
$1,000, 900 in copper, and S13,500 900 in
silver.
"A t~en-year-old girl of Bellaire,
Ohio, had her bare feet so badly frozen
during a somnambulistic trip on a fe-
cent cold night that they had 10 be am
putated.
Ralph Lane and companions who
went back to England from Virginia
with Sir Francis Drake, carried with
them the first tobacco 9 seen in that
country.
"A Catskil1 school teacher attempted
to ''lick'' a colored boy one day last
week, but the colored boy whipped him
instead, and then they shook hands and
''made up"
-Tobogganing is all the rage at Nor
ristown, n. j. The club owns a fine
slide, and numbers among its members
the most fashionable people of that
wealthy town.
"A farm near Warrington, in Salem
county, n. j., was sold at auction the
other day. The price was S64 an acre,
said to be about the average market
price Of farm land in that section.
"A horse that was the pet of a young
lady living at South River, N. j., a
despatch from New Brunswick states,
died after showing unmistakable signs
Of grief since his mistress died, a week
before.
Miss Lucy Stanley, who lives and
owns considerable property near Evans
vile, Ind, is said to have been pro-
claimed Queen or the Gypsies of this
country, vice her sister, who died
December Both.
Two Catawba Indians we're in Co
lumbus, S. c., a few days ago, as rep
resentatives OF their tribe, seeking re-
dress for sequestratlon of their territory
which they claimed had been reduced
to less than 500 acres.
Frank Pierce. a member of the
Worcester (Mass.) fire department,
in getting off an omnibus, a few
days ago, seyerlng IN artery in one OF
legs and bleeding to death in less
than fifteen minutes.
"A lady of Philadelphia presented
her parlor girl with a carpet sweeper on
Christmas, and the girl swept into a
new place the next day, taking the gift
with her. This was kicking up a dust
III the wrong direction.
The public library at New Bruins
wick, n. j., was broken into the other
night by thieves, who scraped up what
money was to be found on the premises
but who, with IN utter absence of lite
rary taste, stole never a single book.